RAMONA: Woman plans party to raise awareness of friend's need for new kidney

"She can survive on dialysis for quite a while," Soderlund said. "But we don't know how long. She's at the point where she actually needs a transplant."

Soderlund said she also will tell people it is easy and painless to be tested to be a candidate for a donation.

"We want people to know you can live a long life with one kidney," she said. "We need a live organ donor to come forward for her, and not enough people get tested. They get tested for bone marrow transplants and other things, but people don't know there are people who need kidneys, and they don't know how easy it is to get tested."